Professor completed Medical School and Internal Medicine residency at Istanbul University and gastroenterology fellowship in Turkey, then hepatology post-doc fellowship at St. Louis University School of Medicine/Liver Centre/MO, USA.
*author of two liver books published in NY, USA.
*member of AASLD and EASL.
*served on the editorial boards and referee: "Gastroenterology", "Hepatology", and "The American Journal of Gastroenterology" (A group journals).
*authored more than 100 peer-reviewed research articles (in pubmed).
International Awards:
1. young investigator awards by The American Association for the Study of Liver Diseases (AASLD) 1998 and 2002, twice.
2. research grant from The European Association for the Study of the Liver (EASL, 2009),
3. FALK germany basic science award (2011).
main working areas for +25 years:
-Diagnostic Gastroscopy , Enteroscopy and Colonoscopy
- Endoscopic resection of digestive tumors.
-Treatment of digestive strictures by endoscopic dilatation and stent placement.
_ Placement of gastric feeding tube.
_Capsule endoscopy.
- Abdominal ultrasound.
- Endoscopic treatment of digestive bleeding.
-Screening program for colorectal cancer.
- Colon diverticulosis.
Motility disorders of the esophagus, Achalasia.
Gastro esophageal reflux disease
Chronic inflammatory bowel disease (ulcerative colitis and Crohn’s disease).*
Digestive functional disorders (chronic constipation, chronic diarrhea, irritable bowel disease, dyspepsia, bloating and indigestion).
Diagnosis and treatment of celiac disease and malabsorption disorders.
Hepatitis, liver cirrhosis and fatty liver disease.
Gallbladder and biliary diseases.*
Noninvasive liver fibrosis diagnosis with Fibroscan.*
Diseases of the pancreas.
